Yep. I think people generally understand that games have to sell more now than what they used to in order to be successful, but they don't fully appreciate what that has caused us to lose in terms of variety. Studios used to be able to put out weird, interesting games that sold a few hundred thousand copies and get by, but that just doesn't fly anymore (except maybe with certain budget conscious indies).

Raven used to work closely with id software since early 1990s till 2008, when both were under Activision ... the company would've faired much better if they were aquired by Zenimax along with id in 2009.
Most of the Raven staffs were laid off by Activision in early 2000s and along with id leaving for Zenimax, the studio was ultimately transformed into CoD support studio.
But even earlier, when Activision bought Raven in 1996, many of Raven's veteran devs left and goes to form their own studio, the Human Head Studios in 1997. Human Head was responsible for the original Prey, Brink and Rune games.
The same team then closes independent Human Head Studios and forms Roundhouse games under Zenimax in 2019.
Microsoft then closes Roundhouse in 2024 and the team has been moved to Zenimax Online studio.
This is much of the journey of Raven devs.
Very few of the original devs might be still at Raven and some og devs are ultimately at Zenimax online and while others are in other 3rd party studios.

Oh man! Soldier of Fortune was wild back in the day. You could really mess people up, not a game you showed your parents for sure lol

Most of OG tango developers left that's why MS decided to close it. And we will see once COD comes to GP day one h0w developers will react. Royalties are a big deal especially on games selling millions to being on GP day one

didn't some of Tango/Arkane get spread out over other Bethesda studios?

But Crystal Dynamics aren't just a support studio like Raven. It's already confirmed that while a team is helping with Perfect Dark, the main crux are working on the new Tomb Raider.